If 23-year-old Krystal Thomas of Syracuse, New York looks like she’s about ready to cut a bitch that’s because she probably is.

Sometime last week she got into an argument with her baby daddy. (Is baby daddy suppose to be hyphenated or not?) The man in question left the home to let Thomas cool down, you know the sensible thing. When he returned police say that Thomas was brandishing a knife and acting strangely. She then allegedly got into a 1998 Buick Century (not a small car) and tried to run the man down. Luckily she missed but after hitting the porch and a parked car she took off.

The man ran into the home to find that Thomas allegedly stabbed her two-year-old son in the groin. No word if she hit organs or muscle, not like a groin stabbing isn’t traumatic either way especially for a two-year-old boy.

Thomas is currently in jail on $200K bond.

I’ll let you in on a little secret. When I was this boy’s age I was a mama’s boy. My dad was a loud and obnoxious drunk so it was an easy choice for me to make. Over the years I witnessed the total love and devotion my mother gave my brother and I when it came to protecting us. A mother is supposed to lover her children above all. My parents used to fight a lot and yes sometimes it even got violent but never once did my mother think to get at my dad by harming one of us.

Krystal Thomas is an ant-mother. She has none of the qualifications or characteristics that any rational person would consider to be a mother.

This is the story about 20-month-old Imani Jennings from Syracuse, New York. She wasn’t just beaten to death by her mom’s boyfriend. She was part of a bizarre set of circumstances that led to a mostly preventable death.

Imanai’s birth organism, 18-year-old Cherron Patterson, had split with Imani’s father. She had taken up with 15-year-old Anthony Weakfall as her new boyfriend. While appearing loving and peaceful in public Imanai was going through hell in private. According to autopsy reports Weakfield repeatedly beat Imani with a metal rod, a cable and a spring and that the abuse was ongoing.

To make matters worse the day care center where Imani would go knew the abuse was going on. Daycare provider Diane Shakir even took pictures of Imanai’s abuse but not to go to police. Shakir allegedly took the pictures to cover her own ass so people wouldn’t think that she was the cause of the abuse. Two weeks before Imani’s death at Weakfall’s hand Patterson removed her from the daycare under the suspicion that Shakir knew about the abuse.

Did I mention that Patterson is also pregnant. I wonder if she thought that Weakfall would treat this baby any different.

Imani’s father, Lee Jennings, was fighting for custody through legal channels but as we all know the wheels of justice tend to jam a lot.

In the weeks leading up to her death Imanai would be left alone all day with a bowl of Chicken McNuggets and a glass of milk. The beatings would come if she had an accident. Think about that for a second. A 20-month-old girl, left home alone all day, then beaten if she had an accident. What child that age doesn’t have accidents.

In a day and age where so many resources are available to ‘parents’ there is no need for people to act like barbarians.

Christopher was watching Christiona Tuesday night while Stephanie went to visit a neighbor. He said the baby wouldn’t stop crying, so he punched her. When Stephanie returned, the baby was quiet. She didn’t notice that anything was wrong. On Wednesday, Stephanie’s mom noticed the bruises, and asked Christopher where they came from. He said the neighbor’s dog jumped on the baby. On Thursday, they visited Christopher’s mother who noticed more bruises. She told them to take Christiona to the hospital. Stephanie finally took the baby to the hospital Thursday morning – not because of the bruises but because it seemed like Christiona had a virus.

After examining the infant, doctors called police. At first, the father denied everything, and said the baby was dropped. Then he said she fell off the couch. Then he told them a dog jumped on the baby. Christopher finally broke down and admitted to beating his daughter.

Christopher was arraigned on first degree assault and child endangerment, and bail set at $20,000. An order of protection was issued keeping him away from his daughter. Once Christiona is taken off of life support and passes away, charges will be upgraded.

Another reason for babies not to have babies. Not only did a very young dad loose his temper and beat his kid, but a young mom was clueless that her daughter was severly injured. If it wasn’t for the grandmothers, I wonder if Stephanie would have ever figured it out.

Prosecutors think they have the truth in the murder of 12-year-old Shelby Andrews – or at least enough of the truth to put both of her “parents” in jail for life. If Shelby’s father, 38-year-old Ryan William Andrews, is to be believed, it goes something like this. Both Andrews and Shelby’s stepmother, Angela Andrews, took delight in tormenting Ryan’s daughter. Of course, the husband paints her as the monster. According to Ryan Andrews, Angela regularly abused the girl at their Syracuse, Utah home, , going so far as to rape her with a can of Lysol and the heel of a shoe.

One day after he arrived home from work, Ryan says that Angela bitched about Shelby’s behavior, leading the two of them to decide she needed to be “punished”. So Ryan crammed the girl into a closet with thin-spaced shelving, and crammed the door shut. The pair turned on the television, ignoring Shelby’s screams about how she couldn’t breathe; Ryan confessed that he thought his daughter was trying to “play” him. When Ryan finally decided, “Gee, maybe I should check on my little girl,” it was too late: Shelby Andrews fell out of the closet, dead.

Ryan William Andrews pleaded guilty to murder, in exchange for the state dropping charges of sexual assault. He will be sentenced next month.

How much should we believe this tearful confession? As a rule, criminals only confess to as much as they feel they have to. Even so, this was a damning admission of guilt. (I don’t buy his blubbering and his courtroom tears for a second, of course. The time to be remorseful is when your daughter is alive; it doesn’t count after you kill her.) Prosecutors say that they have no plans to broker a deal with Angela Andrews, meaning that they’re convinced her husband’s testimony alone can convict her. From what I can tell, the confession came as a surprise, occurring shortly after Angela’s attorney requested that the cases be split. Last month, defense attorney John Caine requested a psychiatric evaluation for his client. This was after the slimeball how Shelby was a “difficult” child – as if any amount of “difficulty” justifies rape and murder. Caine appears to be positioning for a Hail Mary mental health defense. Good luck. A jury’s gonna want to see both of these parents rot for life for what they did to Shelby Andrews.